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  • Creating positive futures for southern Africa

    In November 2016, the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) held an “Anthropocene Visioning Workshop” in Cape Town, with the aim of bringing together a diverse group of changemakers to [...]

  • Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Renewable Energy

    We are inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship position for anyone with a PhD who is interested in focussing on the financial dimensions of South Africa’s renewable energy programme (REIPPPP).

  • Doing Transformative Transdisciplinary Research using Narrative-based Approaches

    We present Narrative Based Transdisciplinary Research making use of Sensemaker. Participants can experience this approach at a research workshop offered by Stellenbosch University at the Sustainability Institute

  • ARThropocene: A Day of Art-Science-Humanities Dialogue to Re-imagine the Anthropcoene

    To imagine, or re-imagine, the Anthropocene, an unprecedented era of planetary change induced, or at least heavily influenced, by human activity, is daunting. Yet the idea of the Anthropocene also [...]

  • Launch of Website for PECS Conference

    The website for the Second Conference of the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society has been launched. The conference takes place from 7-10 November 2017 in Oaxaca, Mexico. Calls for papers, workshops, courses and registration will take place in November 2016.

  • Transdisciplinarity – Opening up new opportunities for academic collaboration amongst BRICS universities

    On June 8-9 2016, John van Breda, of Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST), addressed a colloquium at the Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. John shared insights about the experience of transdisciplinary research at Stellenbosch University. Click here for his full address

  • Food learning journey explores possibilities for change in the food system

    The South African food system is in a state of rapid transition – entangled in multiple crises, yet also rich with innovation, potential and possibility. With this premise in mind, a diverse group of food system actors, drawn from government, civil society, academia and business, set off to explore some of the different ways that people access food around Stellenbosch, and some of those fresh, emergent spaces where changes are happening.

  • Resilience Scoping Dialogue held in Stellenbosch

    At a recent “scoping dialogue” held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) and the Sustainability Institute, more than thirty leading thinkers and practical users of “resilience” were brought together to reflect [...]

  • Short film highlights Food (R)evolution Exhibition’s innovative research activations

    The Food (R)evolution Exhibition is an innovative research tool bringing photography into public space to stimulate conversations about our rapidly changing global and local food systems. This short film captures [...]